Google launches Youtube Gaming to compete with Amazon’s Twitch

08/04/2016

Gaming videos remain to be one of the most popular genre of videos watched by users worldwide on the Internet. With millions of gamers watching billions of hours of videos every month, Youtube launched ‘Youtube Gaming’ last year in the US and U.K. Now, it has come to India.

While the desktop version of the site was live for sometime now, the company has now launched YouTube gaming app for both Android and iOS users in the country.

Its main features include a user interface (UI) that focuses on gaming, allowing for easier searching and browsing of streams. At the moment, YouTube Gaming brings together over 25,000 games.

In August last year, Google ventured into the gaming arena dominated by Amazon-owned Twitch with the launch of YouTube gaming. The rollout of YouTube Gaming marked the public debut of an online venue where video game lovers can find commentary, live play, on-demand snippets and more. An English-language website at gaming.youtube.com was rolled out in countries where YouTube is available.
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